I just purchased a mid 2010 Mac Mini, running 10.6.8. I have several documents made with MS office 2004 on my old computer (G5) using 10.5.8. I understand that I won't be able to run office 2004 in 10.6.8. I really need to be able to open those documents. Can I do that with iPage? It a lot cheaper than a new version of office!

I just purchased a mid 2010 Mac Mini, running 10.6.8. I have several documents made with MS office 2004 on my old computer (G5) using 10.5.8. I understand that I won't be able to run office 2004 in 10.6.8. I really need to be able to open those documents. Can I do that with iPage? It a lot cheaper than a new version of office!

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I just purchased a mid 2010 Mac Mini, running 10.6.8. I have several documents made with MS office 2004 on my old computer (G5) using 10.5.8. I understand that I won't be able to run office 2004 in 10.6.8. I really need to be able to open those documents. Can I do that with iPage? It a lot cheaper than a new version of office!

Jackie

You can run Office 2004 for Mac on a system running 10.6.8, just ensure Rosetta is installed. Rosetta lets you run PowerPC based application on an Intel based Mac.

It's when you get into 10.7 10.8 10.9 that you can no longer use Rosetta.